Moneyball nominated for six Academy Awards

I still haven’t seen the movie Moneyball, but I’m going to have to make a point of seeing it now.

The critically acclaimed baseball movie, based on the book by Michael Lewis, was nominated for six Academy Awards on Jan. 24.

The movie chronicles GM Billy Beane’s transformation of the Oakland A’s during the 2002 season, the year they won 103 games after losing MVP Jason Giambi the previous year to free agency. The small-market A’s ushered in a new way of running a baseball team with the use of advanced statistics.

Brad Pitt was nominated for Best Actor for his role as Beane, while Jonah Hill earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Peter Brand, a character loosely based on Paul DePodesta, Beane’s former assistant.

Moneyball also received nominations for Adapted Screenplay, Sound Mixing and Film Editing.

The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 26. For the complete list of nominations, click here.

For a photo gallery of sports movies at the Academy Awards, click here.

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